The current television offer is wider than ever. On the one hand we have More movies, series, documentaries than ever, and real surprises for zero dollars. On the other hand, streaming platforms are increasingly restricting their offerings: if the rise of HBO Max—which is feared to be just a warning of what will happen when it is rebranded as “MAX “—, the evolution of Netflix prices, and the constant disappearance of series on SkyShowtime, cheaper than the previous ones but which suffers from the same catalog setbacks as the previous ones.
To lighten the load, a new platform comes to the first group. And not just any, since it has an extensive (free) catalog with approximately 1,000 titles on demand, in addition to a good handful of thematic channels that broadcast content 24 hours a day. It’s called Runtime and it’s a service very similar to Pluto TV: for zero dollars, a lot of content similar to DTT.
All channels that Runtime brings
The runtime is, in fact, so similar to DTT that it’s also ad-supported. The good news is that these are short announcements. I just arrived in USA Runtime is compatible with iOS, iPadOS and tvOS. You can have it right now on your iPhone, iPad or Apple TV player.
In addition to legendary movies like ‘The Machinist’, ‘The Perfume’, ‘Rec’ or ‘The Fighter’, in Runtime you have access to 10 linear channels, which are like dials and stream uninterrupted content.
Here are the channels you already have access to:
- Cine and Series Runtime: relatively recent films and television series.
- Execution action: all action movies, as the name suggests.
- Runtime Comedy: Comedy films are shown here, although there are also occasional documentaries.
- Execution Trash: a channel dedicated exclusively to junk cinema, this office cinema with so many enemies but so addictive.
- Runtime Thriller + Terror: frantic low-budget thriller and horror.
- Crime of execution
- Execution novel: romantic films, period romances, dramas with laughter and lots of hugs.
- Running Classics: only classic cinema, from the great myths of Italian cinema to the jewels of Buster Keaton.
- Ana and the 7: Yes, exactly what you would expect, a channel that streams episodes of ‘Ana y los 7’. Dante’s Inferno for some, real entertainment for their audience.
- Curro Jimenez: another thematic channel that broadcasts the Curro Jiménez series on a loop.
- Execution Series: the latter, on the other hand, alternates between different series of different genres, such as CSI Las Vegas.
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